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Maybe it's our sins that give God consolation when he finally has to give us cancer.

~Chuck Palahniuk

Topics: Cancer Consolation Finally Give God He Maybe Our Sins Us

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Our system is the height of absurdity, since we treat the culprit both as a child, so as to have the right to punish him, and as an adult, in order to deny him consolation.

~Claude Levi-Strauss

Topics: Absurdity Adult Both Child Consolation Deny Height Him Order Our Punish Right Since System Treat

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Many people see the chance to eat something for nothing, without the need to cook or wash up, as the great consolation of going out to dinner. But they forget quite how difficult it is to talk to a stranger and eat at the same time.

~Craig Brown

Topics: Chance Consolation Cook Difficult Dinner Eat Forget Going Great How Many Need Nothing Out People Quite Same Same Time See Something Stranger Talk Time Up Wash Without

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When you're in the muck you can only see muck. If you somehow manage to float above it, you still see the muck but you see it from a different perspective. And you see other things too. That's the consolation of philosophy.

~David Cronenberg

Topics: Above Consolation Different Different Perspective Float Manage Only Other Perspective Philosophy See Somehow Still Things Too You

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Confession has been my habitual homecoming since I was a child. It is a consolation and a joy, and such joy, our faith teaches us, is meant for everyone. It is our vocation to bring it to as many people as possible.

~Donald Wuerl

Topics: Been Bring Child Confession Consolation Everyone Faith Habitual Homecoming Joy Many Meant Our People Possible Since Teaches Us Vocation

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Under the pressure of the cares and sorrows of our mortal condition, men have at all times, and in all countries, called in some physical aid to their moral consolations - wine, beer, opium, brandy, or tobacco.

~Edmund Burke

Topics: Aid Beer Brandy Cares Condition Consolation Countries Men Moral Mortal Opium Our Physical Pressure Some Sorrows Times Tobacco Wine

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I find great consolation in having a lot of poetry books around. I believe that writing poetry and reading it are deeply intertwined. I've always delighted in the company of the poets I've read.

~Edward Hirsch

Topics: Always Around Believe Books Company Consolation Deeply Delighted Find Great Having Intertwined Lot Poetry Poets Read Reading Writing I Believe I Believe That

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I have sympathy for anyone who finds consolation anywhere we can. And many people do find it in religious tradition as it has been. I mean, I love much of that tradition. But somehow, that just didn't speak to me in the way that it does to some.

~Elaine Pagels

Topics: Anyone Anywhere Been Consolation Does Find Finds Just Love Many Me Mean Much People Religious Some Somehow Speak Sympathy Tradition Way Who I Love

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That is the consolation of a little mind; you have the fun of changing it without impeding the progress of mankind.

~Frank Moore Colby

Topics: Changing Consolation Fun Little Mankind Mind Progress Without You

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Love is not consolation. It is light.

~Friedrich Nietzsche

Topics: Consolation Light Love Love Is

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